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Gold winner, Gaudet Optical

Gold Winner Gaudet Optical

Silver Winner Ocean Optometry

Bronze Winner Lang Optometry & Eyewear

Doug Gaudet owns about 50 frames at any given time, which probably explains why you don’t often see him wearing the same pair. It sounds a little excessive but can you blame him? When you’re constantly surrounded by one-of-a-kind, gorgeous, weird, wacky wearable art like he is it’d be hard to not wear a different pair every day. “It’s the first thing people see when they look at you,” says Gaudet. “You want them to be fabulous and memorable, not drab and predictable. People are beautiful, they deserve beautiful glasses.” Whether you need glasses or not, every trip to Gaudet is a sensory experience.